Three months after the state’s deadliest school shooting, only one of eight campuses had an unscalable fence fully installed. Other security measures remain unfinished.
Aiko Coronado helps her daughter Adrianna Medina, 10, put on a necklace as she gets ready for the first day of classes in Uvalde on Sept. 6, 2022. Adrianna wore a custom shirt with Uvalde Strong on the front and a picture of herself with her cousin Maite Rodriguez, who died in the shooting, on the back., our daily newsletter that keeps readers up to speed on the most essential Texas news.
Like the Coronados, families in Uvalde sent their children to the first day of school on Tuesday morning, three months after the deadliest shooting at a Texas public school. The Texas Department of Public Safety had officers stationed at all eight of the district’s campuses, watching as kids were dropped off and making sure classroom doors were locked. The presence of law enforcement didn’t make Coronado feel any safer, she said, in part because they didn’t do their job on May 24.The Texas House committee
She cried herself to sleep the night before school resumed, Coronado said. Adrianna has struggled with anxiety, post-traumatic stress disorder and depression since the shooting. Coronado said her daughter has woken up freaking out about gunshots she’s heard from a dove hunting ground across the street.
While Coronado was making sure her kids didn’t miss the school bus, Adam Martinez, a father of two, was getting his kids — an 8-year-old and 12-year-old — ready to learn online. But it didn’t go to plan as the school had technical difficulties with launching the online school.“If you know math, you know how to write, you know how to read, that’s half the battle right there,” he said.
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